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The Israeli heart association encouraged the Ministerial Committee on Legislation to vote in favor of a law requiring the installation of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public places. Cardiovascular disease kills more people in the Western World than any other cause, and cardiac arrest (heart attack) is its most common condition leading to death. Once a person suffers a heart attack and blood flow to the brain ceases, a person will suffer immediate brain damage and die within a few minutes. But if a person receives an electric shock to the heart within the first seven minutes, as many as 90% of cardiac arrest victims will survive the incident.

In the US, it is already the law that AEDs be installed in all public places. Laws requiring AED installation have been passed in all 50 states, including Florida, but the AEDs are often missing. If you or someone you love suffered a heart attack but there was no AED nearby, the loss you suffered as a result, whether it is the death of a loved one, brain injury, or emotional trauma is a result of the negligence of the property owners. You not only have a right to bring a lawsuit, you have a responsibility to sue to get an AED in place, to save someone else from the same or greater loss. To learn more about your options, contact the Florida heart attack injury lawyer at the Law Offices of Craig Goldenfarb, P.A. to discuss the merits of your possible case.

Labels: heart attack, heart damage, premises liability

The promise of molecular-based targeted cancer drugs has always been that they would attack only the cancer and reduce possible side effects to small effects with a low probability. However, they are proving to come with just as many dangerous side effects as more traditional drug therapies. A recent study showed that Pfizer, Inc's Sutent, approved to treat a variety of stomach cancer and advanced kidney cancer, can damage the heart, leading to high blood pressure and heart failure. This follows last year's revelation that Gleevac, designed to treat leukemia, as well as the previous findings that Herceptin, which targets breast cancer, also cause heart damage.

Although researchers say that these drugs are less toxic to the body as a whole, they admit that many of the molecules that drive cancer are involved in normal cell function. Thus, the so-called targeted therapies may also target normal cells as well.

If you or someone you love is finding that the promises made about your new medication are as much wishful thinking as real science, contact the Texas defective drug lawyers at Jim Adler & Associates today to find help.

Labels: defective pharmaceutical, heart damage, scholarly study